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The team rounds up many facts and Kaffee is discovering that he is really cut out for trial work. The defense is originally based upon the fact that PFC Santiago, the victim, was given a "CODE RED". Santiago was basically a screw-up. At Gitmo, screw-ups aren't tolerated. Especially by Col. Nathan Jessup. In Cuba, Jessup and two senior officers try to give all the help they can, but Kaffee knows something's fishy. In the conclusion of the film, the fireworks are set off by a confrontation between Jessup and Kaffee. Written by Matt Curtolo <curt@epix.net> You Can't Handle the Truth! - A Few Good Men (7/8) Movie CLIP (1992) HD - YouTube You Can't Handle the Truth! - A Few Good Men (7/8) Movie CLIP (1992) HD Want to watch this again later? Sign in to add this video to a playlist. Need to report the video? Sign in to report inappropriate content. Rating is available when the video has been rented. This feature is not available right now. Please try again later.

Published on Oct 21, 2012 A Few Good Men movie clips: BUY THE MOVIE: Don't miss the HOTTEST NEW TRAILERS: CLIP DESCRIPTION: Lt. Kaffee's (Tom Cruise) search for the truth hits a roadblock in Col. Jessep (Jack Nicholson). FILM DESCRIPTION: In this military courtroom drama based on the play by Aaron Sorkin, Navy lawyer Lt. Daniel Kaffee (Tom Cruise) is assigned to defend two Marines, Pfc. Louden Downey (James Marshall) and Lance Cpl. Harold Dawson (Wolfgang Bodison), who are accused of the murder of fellow leatherneck Pfc. William Santiago (Michael de Lorenzo) at the U.S. Navy base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Kaffee generally plea bargains for his clients rather than bring them to trial, which is probably why he was assigned this potentially embarassing case, but when Lt. Commander JoAnne Galloway (Demi Moore) is assigned to assist Kaffee, she is convinced that there's more to the matter than they've been led to believe and convinces her colleague that the case should go to court.

Under questioning, Downey and Dawson reveal that Santiago died in the midst of a hazing ritual known as "Code Red" after he threatened to inform higher authorities that Dawson opened fire on a Cuban watchtower. They also state that the "Code Red" was performed under the orders of Lt. Jonathan Kendrick (Kiefer Sutherland). Kendrick's superior, tough-as-nails Col. Nathan Jessup (Jack Nicholson), denies any knowledge of the order to torture Santiago, but when Lt. Col. Matthew Markinson (J.T. Walsh) confides to Kaffee that Jessup demanded the "Code Red" for violating his order of silence, Kaffee and Galloway have to find a way to prove this in court. A Few Good Men also features Kevin Bacon as prosecuting attorney Capt. Jack Ross and Kevin Pollak as Kaffee and Galloway's research assistant, Lt. Sam Weinberg. CREDITS: Cast: Tom Cruise, Jack Nicholson, Kevin Bacon, J.A. Preston Director: Rob Reiner Producers: David Brown, William S.

Gilmore, Steve Nicolaides, Rachel Pfeffer, Rob Reiner, Andrew Scheinman, Jeffrey Stott Screenwriter: Aaron Sorkin WHO ARE WE? The MOVIECLIPS channel is the largest collection of licensed movie clips on the web. Here you will find unforgettable moments, scenes and lines from all your favorite films. Made by movie fans, for movie fans. SUBSCRIBE TO OUR MOVIE CHANNELS: MOVIE REVIEW : Two of the Best 'Men' : Jack Nicholson and Tom Cruise star in an old-fashioned military courtroom drama that is a tribute to pure star power. - latimes YOU ARE HERE: LAT Home → Collections MOVIE REVIEW : Two of the Best 'Men' : Jack Nicholson and Tom Cruise star in an old-fashioned military courtroom drama that is a tribute to pure star power. December 11, 1992 |KENNETH TURAN | TIMES FILM CRITIC "A Few Good Men" takes you back. Way back.

A brisk and familiar courtroom drama of the old school, as pleasant to watch as it is predictable, "Men" more than anything else is a tribute to pure star power, an assured reminder of the days when actors played by the rules and didn't hesitate to do the things audiences liked to see them doing. Centered, like "The Caine Mutiny" before it, around a trial inside a military courtroom, "A Few Good Men" (citywide) would like you to think it's about such weighty topics as the misuse of power and a young man's struggle to find himself, but no one will be coming out of theaters whistling those tunes. Rather this film's true reason for being is to give Jack Nicholson and Tom Cruise, old lion and young pretender, the kinds of juicy roles they do best and then turn them loose to rock and roll. For those who wondered what Cruise was up to wandering around Ireland in funny clothes and an uncertain accent, he's back in business as Navy Lt. J.G. Daniel Kaffee, a self-confident wiseacre with a million-watt smile who could be the separated-at-birth twin of "Top Gun's" cocky Maverick.

It's a persona Cruise knows inside out, but rather than walk through the part, he attacks it with vigor, and one of the achievements of both Aaron Sorkin's script and Rob Reiner's direction is that they found ways to rekindle the actor's interest in such a well-worn dramatic stance. For the Record Los Angeles Times Monday December 14, 1992 Home Edition Calendar Part F Page 4 Column 4 Entertainment Desk 1 inches; 22 words Type of Material: Correction Wrong photographer--A photograph of Tom Cruise in Friday's Calendar section was credited to the wrong photographer. The photographer was Michele Singer. As enjoyably energetic as Cruise is, Nicholson goes him one better. A performer with more experience (and more range), Nicholson is capable of all manner of movie star brassiness, and his pivotal albeit supporting role as man-eating Marine Col. Nathan R. Jessup is a treat, the kind of showy, self-confident acting that awards were made for and that this picture would be in serious trouble without. Before we get to either Nicholson or Cruise, a little plotting is in order. "Men" (rated R for language) opens on the U.S.

Naval Base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Two pairs of hurried footsteps are heard on a Marine barracks hallway, a door is opened, a frightened young man is roused from his bed, his mouth and wrists roughly taped and then everything is darkness. Cut to stateside, and Lt. Cmdr. JoAnne Galloway (Demi Moore in a brisk, buttoned-down performance). A military attorney with more passion than street smarts, she wants desperately to defend those two young men from Guantanamo. They have been charged with murder, the fellow Marine whose mouth they taped having died soon after the attack. For the accused, it turns out, are not troublemakers but recruiting poster Marines, the good guys, and Galloway suspects that an ominous tradition called a Code Red was the real cause of that accidental death. The Navy (which, though no one bothers to explain it, has legal jurisdiction over the Marines) has other plans. The Marines' defense is handed over to Lt. Kaffee (Cruise), a breezy type just out of law school. More interested in plea bargaining than in defending anyone and more interested in softball than in anything, he and junior counsel Lt.

Sam Weinberg (a quietly amusing Kevin Pollak) figure this case will not be a severe drain on their time. They figure without Kaffee's military superior, the other half of this odd couple legal team, the bulldog Lt. Cmdr. Galloway. Irritated by the young man's insolent, who-cares attitude, she keeps yapping at him until he takes both her and the case seriously. And don't forget Col. Jessup (Nicholson), the hard-case Marine commander down at Guantanamo who is not shy about saying that he eats breakfast each and every morning eyeball to eyeball with ever so many armed Cubans who'd love to wax his hide. In fact, more interesting than this film's story (and more believable) is its back story, the portrayal of a world of spit-and-polish fanatics who believe in their military culture of honor and violence and their harsh code of behavior with a fervor usually reserved for more spiritual matters. While watching Nicholson and Cruise chew on each other and gnaw on the scenery is quite a treat, everything in "A Few Good Men" doesn't work as efficiently as their performances.

The film's plot, taken from Sorkin's long-running Broadway play, is more contrived than creditable, motivations are not always clear, and some characters, for instance Kiefer Sutherland as a praise the lord and pass the ammunition Marine, are not very convincingly acted. Yet director Reiner has more than enough professionalism at his command as well as a shrewd feel for the mechanics of mass entertainment to involve us in his tale. To be in a tense courtroom and hear confident attorneys cuttingly say, "Your witness," as they make haughty experts squirm is always a pleasure. Though it would be a mistake to get too excited over what, for all its grand designs, remains an uncomplicated piece of entertainment, simple pleasures like these are getting harder and harder to find. 'A Few Good Men' Tom Cruise: Lt. (J.G.) Daniel Kaffee Jack Nicholson: Col. Nathan R. Jessup Demi Moore: Lt. Cmdr. JoAnne Galloway Kevin Bacon: Capt. Jack Ross Kiefer Sutherland: Lt. Jonathan Kendrick Kevin Pollak: Lt. Sam Weinberg Castle Rock Entertainment presents a David Brown production, released by Columbia Pictures. Director Rob Reiner.

Producers David Brown, Rob Reiner, Andrew Scheinman. Executive producers William Gilmore, Rachel Pfeffer. Screenplay Aaron Sorkin, based on his play. Cinematographer Robert Richardson. Editor Robert Leighton. Costumes Gloria Gresham. Music Marc Shaiman. Production design J. Michael Riva. Art director Dave Klassen. Set decorator Michael Taylor. Running time: 2 hours, 18 minutes. MPAA-rated R (language). A Few Good Men (1992) Starring: Tom Cruise, Jack Nicholson, Demi Moore - Three Movie Buffs Review Reviewed on: April 20th, 2013 Jack Nicholson and Tom Cruise in A Few Good Men. Early in Tom Cruise's career, his characters often had "daddy issues." From the pressure imposed on him from his fathers in Risky Business (1983) and All the Right Moves (1983) to trying to live up to his father's expectations in Top Gun (1986), Cruise seemed to play lots of variations of the same person. With A Few Good Men, the theme does not play a central role in the plot, but it is an important theme.

Cruise plays JAG officer (Naval Lawyer) Lt. Daniel Kaffee who would rather play softball than take his military career seriously. This angers Lt. Cdr. JoAnne Galloway, whose job is to see that Kaffee does his job. They do not get along for much of the film. At one point she yells at him, "You know nothing about the law. You're a used-car salesman, Daniel. You're an ambulance chaser with a rank. You're nothing. Live with that." With that hostility in mind, the two work together, along with a third lawyer, to defend two U.S. marines accused of murdering a fellow soldier on the U.S. Naval base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. The marines claim it was an accidental death following orders to beat a soldier who was not up to standard. The prosecution claims the soldiers acted on their own volition. Although the interaction between Kaffee and Galloway is often tense, the film reaches a new level of intrigue when the lawyers travel to Guantanamo Bay to interview servicemen and the base commander, Col. Nathan R. Jessup, played to the hilt by Jack Nicholson.

Upon their initial meeting, it becomes clear that Jessup has no affection for the snooping Lawyers. The film reaches its classic climax when Jessup is called to testify in Washington D.C.. The scene of Cruise questioning Nicholson on the stand is a truly great moment on film, even if Jessup seems to give away his hand a bit too easily. Who can forget Nicholson's, "You can't handle the truth!" speech. Here is where the daddy issue comes into play. Shortly before the trial, Galloway brings up Kaffee's father, who responds, "Oh, spare me the psycho babble father bullshit." Whether he wants to admit it or not, putting Jessup on the stand is his therapy in dealing with his father's legacy. Lead by Cruise, Nicholson and Moore, who was at the height of her career, A Few Good Men is packed with a great cast reciting some very memorable lines written by Aaron Sorkin, who wrote the screenplay as well as the stage play. The one weak link in the cast is Wolfgang Bodison as Dawson, one of the accused marines. He worked in Rob Reiner's office, who thought he looked the part and cast him. Too bad he could not act the part.

In a film with great dialogue, he ruins what few lines he has. As a last personal note, I have to write that I was stationed in Guantanamo Bay when I was in the service, and it was fascinating seeing it on screen again. The base houses thousands of servicemen and women, as well as their families and civilian workers, but for the past decade or so, it has only been known as a prison for the Taliban. Watch A few Good Men and see that it is more than that and that we do have U.S. servicemen in harm's way even when we are not at war. Or can't you handle the truth? Did you enjoy Eric's review? +12 Reviewed on: February 8th, 2014 Tom Cruise, Demi Moore, and Kevin Pollak in A Few Good Men. Not only did Tom Cruise play many characters with “daddy issues” early on in his career, for a while there he also appeared opposite several legendary actors of his father's generation.

In 1986 he starred with Paul Newman in The Color of Money (for which Newman finally snagged a Best Actor Oscar after numerous nominations), two years later he starred opposite Dustin Hoffman in Rain Man (for which Hoffman received his second Best Actor Oscar), and of course in this movie he shared the screen with Jack Nicholson (who was nominated for Best Supporting Actor). (It is worth noting that Cuba Gooding Jr. has one brief scene here and four years later would star opposite Cruise in Jerry Maguire and win a Best Supporting Actor Oscar.) Tom Cruise, meanwhile, remains Oscar-less after three nominations. A Few Good Men (and one woman) is a solidly entertaining courtroom drama. Cruise and company keep your attention riveted to the screen even if the script does play a bit fast and loose with actual court-martial proceedings. The real point of the movie is to give Cruise and Nicholson two juicy roles all building to that famous showdown in court. Cruise plays his usual hotshot character, who is always great at what he does. This time around he has a rather lackadaisical attitude towards his chosen career but then this is needed to give his character some emotional arc. Demi Moore plays the weakest written character.

She is there to goad Cruise on but she has to be one of the most dimwitted people ever to pass the bar. Her “strenuous” objection in court being the best example of this, although it does provide a bit of levity to the courtroom scenes. The entire cast does good work even if they all seem to be playing to the highest row in the balcony. From Kiefer Sutherland's Lt. Kendrick (with an overdone southern accent, “No, I like all you Navy boys. Every time we've gotta go someplace to fight, you fellas always give us a ride.” to Kevin Bacon's Capt. Ross (with smug determination), “Lieutenant Kendrick, did you order Lance Corporal Dawson and Private Downey to give Willie Santiago a code red?” there's enough ham in the cast to feed every soldier at Guantanamo Bay. All the theatrical histrionics work in the stories' favor. It's set on a high flame that reaches the boiling point with Nicholson's now iconic outburst in court. Sure the good guys and bad guys are all drawn with equally broad strokes but none of that hurts the movie's enjoyment level.

A Few Good Men is one of those movies where you just sit back and relish the performances while anticipating Jessup's inevitable comeuppance. All these years later (as of this writing Cruise is just two years younger than Nicholson was then) it remains a riveting courtroom drama. Did you enjoy Patrick's review? +10 Reviewed on: April 26th, 2016 Jack Nicholson in A Few Good Men. A Few Good Men (and one woman) is solidly entertaining thanks mostly to its talented cast and the brisk pace that belies its 138 minute running time. With all the acting fireworks it's easy to overlook the predictability of the plot and the manner in which it is spoon fed to you. There's nothing subtle here. This is old fashioned scenery chewing at its finest. Patrick commented on Tom Cruise's lack of an Oscar and I think it's due to his acting style, which is so easygoing and charming that he rarely seems to be acting. His character here is a typical one of his. He's cocky and arrogant, but he gets away with it with charm and that embrace the world smile of his that invites you to enjoy the joke with him.

He makes it look so easy, you forget he's working. It's a trait that he shared with his former acting mentor Paul Newman, who also went Oscar-less for most of his career. Like Newman, I envision Cruise winning a late career Oscar, probably in a supporting part. The real fun in the film is watching the trio of Cruise, Moore, and Pollak plot and strategize their way through the case. Moore and Cruise share a playful chemistry. I disagree with Patrick that she's the weakest written and also that she's dimwitted. By the time she makes that outburst in court, it's already been established that she's good at the job of investigating, but horrible in the courtroom. It's why she's passed over in favor of Cruise in the film's very first scene. There are more nuances to her character than Pollak's or Sutherland's. I'm only surprised that someone didn't try to turn these characters into a television series. They would have needed different actors of course, but there's definitely the potential to keep them working together on further cases. Sorkin writes great dialogue, but the overall structure of the story is a little weak.

Too much is spelled out to the audience and the characters are too black and white. If Nicholson had taken the stand wearing a black cowboy hat on his head it couldn't have been more obvious. Also, every stage and strategy of the trial is laid out clearly so we are rarely surprised. And the ending, while dramatic and well acted, feels like an old episode of Perry Mason. All Col. Jessup needed to do was keep his cool and the trial would have been lost. For someone who has risen so far in the military, he behaves shockingly stupidly; more like a petulant child than a commanding officer. Of course if he didn't lose his temper in that scene the world would be deprived of one hell of a performance by Jack Nicholson and his now legendary, "You can't handle the truth!" Although that one confrontation scene between Nicholson and Cruise is the most famous moment in the film, it only succeeds because of all that came before it. The entire film builds to that one moment. It's highly theatrical, but also highly entertaining. Did you enjoy Scott's review? +3 A Few Good Men - Movies & TV on Google Play A Few Good Men Item added to wishlist. Item removed from wishlist.

You will receive an email when your movie becomes available. You will not be charged until it is released. ( 372) Synopsis Tom Cruise, Jack Nicholson and Demi Moore star in Rob Reiner's unanimously acclaimed drama about the dangerous difference between following orders and following one's conscience. Cruise stars as a brash Navy lawyer who's teamed with a gung-ho litigator (Moore) in a politically explosive murder case. Charged with defending two Marines accused of killing a fellow soldier, they are confronted with complex issues of loyalty and honor, including its most sacred code and its most formidable warrior (Nicholson). Superbly directed with a trio of powerhouse performances and an outstanding supporting cast including Kevin Pollak, Kiefer Sutherland and Kevin Bacon. (Original Title - A Few Good Men) © 1992 Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. and Castle Rock Entertainment. All Rights Reserved. My review 1 1 Dave Kehr By pitting Cruise against Nicholson in the film`s final courtroom confrontation, Sorkin and Reiner are pitting two notions of masculinity and two notions of stardom against each other.

Kenneth Turan A brisk and familiar courtroom drama of the old school, as pleasant to watch as it is predictable, Men more than anything else is a tribute to pure star power. Michael Sragow The whole film, with its steady, important-picture pacing, its foursquare visual style, and its pseudo-profundity, is a piece of glorified banality. Steven Rea The literally in-your-face camera work can easily expose an actor's weaknesses, but, with the lens framed on Nicholson's bulldog visage, he lets loose with volcanic fury. His demagoguery and... Gene Siskel The driving force of the story is watching Cruise`s character develop some backbone and staying power. Jay Boyar As you may have suspected, Jack Nicholson steals the show. His Col. Nathan Jessep isn't in a lot of scenes, but when he's there, you can't take your eyes off him. Critic reviews Dave Kehr By pitting Cruise against Nicholson in the film`s final courtroom confrontation, Sorkin and Reiner are pitting two notions of masculinity and two notions of stardom against each other.

Full Review Kenneth Turan A brisk and familiar courtroom drama of the old school, as pleasant to watch as it is predictable, Men more than anything else is a tribute to pure star power. Full Review Michael Sragow The whole film, with its steady, important-picture pacing, its foursquare visual style, and its pseudo-profundity, is a piece of glorified banality. Full Review Steven Rea The literally in-your-face camera work can easily expose an actor's weaknesses, but, with the lens framed on Nicholson's bulldog visage, he lets loose with volcanic fury. His demagoguery and... Gene Siskel The driving force of the story is watching Cruise`s character develop some backbone and staying power. Full Review Jay Boyar As you may have suspected, Jack Nicholson steals the show. His Col. Nathan Jessep isn't in a lot of scenes, but when he's there, you can't take your eyes off him. User reviews Alexander Norling February 8, 2015 Great Classic I have always loved watching this movie. It shows that sometimes following orders that are off the record can get you in trouble.

Full Review Victoria Sargent June 2, 2016 A Few Good Men Military movie (not my favorite ). But I truly loved this movie. I loved the multiple story lines .The very mild physical violence and the actors chosen. Full Review May 15, 2016 One of the Great Films of the 20th Century Aaron Sorkin's screenplay launched him into Hollywood greatness, and Rob Reiner assembled one of the best casts of the decade. This one is not to be missed. Larry Hall May 16, 2016 You cant handle these actors! Just an awesome movie..period! Ya daum right i ordered the "CODE RED" Full Review Jessica Howard August 10, 2015 Amazing This has and always will be one of my favorite movies ever. Great casting and amazing job! Jacob Kirschbaum January 31, 2016 Awesome movie Great plot, great actors. Easily in my top 5 favorite movies Twinkieman TV January 7, 2016 Body of lies Adrienne Hart October 8, 2014 Very suspenseful movie, worth watching a few times!

Jackie Caron March 12, 2016 Love this movie! It's awesome! One of my favorites! Julian Sanchez February 14, 2015 This movie is in my top ten ever Great performance Brent M November 12, 2015 All time favorite movie. Perfectly casted and scripted. Jackson Anderson January 26, 2015 A few good men It's the best Michael Lucas December 30, 2014 A few good men. As good as it's gets. Two Jack City – EW.com Email The first movie-scheduling wrestling match of the Christmas season, which promised to offer up dueling Jack Nicholson films, instead has led to a strategic withdrawal. Hoffa, Twentieth Century Fox’s Danny DeVito-directed biopic, starring Nicholson as the gutsy labor leader, was supposed to open Dec. 11. Then Columbia Pictures moved A Few Good Men, its military-courtroom drama starring Nicholson, Tom Cruise, Kiefer Sutherland, and Demi Moore, from its original Dec. 18 date to…Dec. 11.

It would have marked the first time in recent memory that a major star opened against himself on competing screens. Reason for the switch: After successful test screenings, Columbia was eager to advance Good Men‘s opening while avoiding following Hoffa into the marketplace, and it expected that Hoffa, faced with Good Men‘s turbo-charge of Nicholson and Cruise, would back off. But Fox didn’t blink — at first. ”Any time you said A Few Good Men, you mentioned Hoffa,” says Fox executive vice president Tom Sherak. ”That was good for Hoffa.” But a source close to Columbia complained, ”Fox is mind-f—ing with us.” Though after milking the minidrama for a few days, Fox did change its mind. Hoffa will now open Christmas day on 1,000 screens. ”It wasn’t a question of us blinking,” insists Sherak. ”It was a question of us playing it out as long as we could and then going to the right date. A Few Good Men will be huge and that will help us with Hoffa.” Columbia chairman Mark Canton is relieved.

The showdown, he says, ”could have been a headache for Jack.” Instead of competing with himself, Nicholson is now scheduled to open against another big-budget biopic, TriStar’s Chaplin. Unless, of course, somebody else blinks. Show Full Article 17 Truthful Facts About 'A Few Good Men' | Mental Floss 17 Truthful Facts About 'A Few Good Men' YouTube Like us on Facebook Oscar-winning screenwriter Aaron Sorkin first came to the public's attention after writing the legal drama A Few Good Men, first as a play, then as a film. Tom Cruise, Jack Nicholson, and Demi Moore starred in the 1992 Rob Reiner-directed movie about two U.S. Marines who are court-martialed for the murder of a fellow Marine, purportedly under orders from their higher-ups. Here are some truths about the critically-acclaimed courtroom drama that you can definitely handle. 1. AARON SORKIN WROTE THE PLAY ON BAR NAPKINS WHILE BARTENDING. Sorkin’s older sister, Deborah, had recently joined the Navy JAG Corps fresh from graduating from law school when she called him one Sunday morning.

Deborah told Aaron about a case she was working on involving a hazing gone wrong at the U.S. military base in Guantanamo Bay, where the accused said they were ordered to do it by a superior, involving a “Code Red.” Sorkin then went to work as a bartender at Broadway's Palace Theatre. While patrons were taking in the first act of La Cage aux Folles, he began writing A Few Good Men on some cocktail napkins. He went home that night and typed up what he had written on the napkins on a Mac 512 K he shared with his roommates, and continued to do so until he was finished . 2. LINDA HAMILTON AND JODIE FOSTER AUDITIONED FOR THE ROLE OF LT. COMMANDER GALLOWAY. A then-eight-months-pregnant Demi Moore ended up getting the part, and was paid $2 million for the role. 3. JASON ALEXANDER WAS SET TO PLAY LT. SAM WEINBERG. But when Seinfeld was renewed by NBC for a second season, he was no longer available. Reiner then gave Kevin Pollak the part after he read with Cruise. 4.

TOM CRUISE SAW THE BROADWAY PLAY BEFORE SIGNING ON TO PLAY LT. KAFFEE. He also insisted on learning all of the “legalese” dialogue in the script. 5. LANCE CPL. HAROLD DAWSON WAS PLAYED BY ROB REINER’S PERSONAL ASSISTANT. Wolfgang Bodison started in the mail room at Reiner’s production company, Castle Rock, before becoming a production assistant, then Reiner’s personal assistant on Misery. He was scouting locations for A Few Good Men when Reiner decided Bodison looked like a Marine and that he should act in the film . Bodison has gone on to act in other films, as well as write and direct. 6. JOSHUA MALINA WAS IN BOTH THE BROADWAY PLAY AND THE MOVIE. Frequent Sorkin collaborator Joshua Malina played PFC Downey for the last six to eight months of the stage production. He played Tom, Colonel Jessup’s clerk, in the movie. It was his first feature film role. 7. DESCENDANTS OF HOLLYWOOD LEGENDS TOOK PART IN THE PRODUCTION. Frank Capra III was first assistant director .

Marlene Dietrich’s grandson, J. Michael Riva, was the production designer. 8. JACK NICHOLSON WAS PAID $5 MILLION FOR 10 DAYS OF WORK. Nicholson, as Colonel Nathan R. Jessup, was in just three scenes in the entire movie. Technically he worked an extra morning for free when Reiner and crew didn’t get all of his footage shot in time. 9. NICHOLSON DID A LOT MORE WORK THAN HE HAD TO. He recited the famous courtroom speech an estimated 40 to 50 times , at full intensity every time—even for all of the shots that were of Cruise, Moore, Pollak, Kevin Bacon, and the rest of the courtroom simply reacting to what he was saying. Nicholson said he was “quite spent” by the time he finished. 10. A LOT OF DEFERENCE WAS SHOWN TO NICHOLSON. The three-time Oscar winner told Reiner he noticed that when he walked into the first rehearsal, the rest of the cast rushed to their seats. "Afterward I told him, 'Rob, it was so strange I felt like the (expletive) Lincoln Memorial,'" Nicholson told the Los Angeles Times .

"I blushed actually." 11. KEVIN POLLAK’S MOTHER HIT ON JACK NICHOLSON. Pollak wrote about the incident in his book , How I Slept My Way to the Middle, and recalled the story during an appearance on Conan. 12. REINER THOUGHT ONE LINE OF DIALOGUE WAS MUCH FUNNIER. After Galloway tells Kaffee and Weinberg she has the medical reports and Chinese food, she suggests they eat first. After a beat, Weinberg asks, “You got any Kung Pao chicken?” Reiner thought it should have gotten a laugh. He claimed it never did . 13. KIEFER SUTHERLAND WAS A BAD DRIVER. Multiple takes were needed for a scene in which Kiefer Sutherland's Lt. Kendrick drives the legal team around the base, after he clipped a couple of Marines. He wasn’t used to driving a military Jeep. 14. SORKIN MADE A CAMEO. Fittingly, he’s in a bar scene , as one lawyer talking to a woman about a case. 15. THERE WAS A LOT OF DISCUSSION ABOUT GALLOWAY.

An unnamed executive gave Sorkin the note: "If Tom Cruise and Demi Moore aren't going to sleep with each other, why is Demi Moore a woman?" His response ? "I said the obvious answer: Women have purposes other than to sleep with Tom Cruise." He claimed the incident was his worst experience as a screenwriter. Demi Moore said she really wanted the part in the first place because Galloway was a “genderless” role . Roger Ebert in his 2.5 star review wrote that a friend of his intuited that Galloway was originally written as a man. In Sorkin’s third draft of the screenplay , dated months before shooting, the movie ends with Kaffee asking Galloway out on a date. She responds by telling him to wear matching socks, like she did before the first day of the trial. That exchange did not make it into the movie. 16. THE DEFENSE DEPARTMENT REFUSED TO ENDORSE THE FILM. This meant that the filmmakers couldn't utilize any military installations during filming. Most of A Few Good Men was shot on a Culver City soundstage. 17. FOUR LAWYERS HAVE CLAIMED KAFFEE WAS BASED ON THEM.

The men all played a role in Deborah Sorkin’s Guantanamo Bay case, where 10 Marines faced assault charges, each with his own lawyer. One advertised on his law firm’s website that his exploits became the basis for Kaffee, and it was great for his career. Through a spokesman, Sorkin told The New York Times that Kaffee wasn’t based on anybody . Jessup was though, according to Jack Nicholson, who recalled two Marine generals who were on set as consultants . They both knew the actual Jessup and his story. Amazon.com: A Few Good Men: Wolfgang Bodison, Tom Cruise, Jack Nicholson, Demi Moore: Amazon Digital Services LLC TITLE: Few Good Men, A (1992) • R • 2:18:01 Tom Cruise, Jack Nicholson, Demi Moore, Kevin Bacon Rob Reiner (Director) I first saw this movie during its initial theatrical release in 1992, and felt then, as I do now, that it was a superior combination of murder mystery and court-room drama — It has, most definitely, aged VERY well. See the other reviews for more detail and/or other opinions regarding the plot of the movie.

VIDEO: 2.35:1 • Color • 1080p (21.2 Mbps) • MPEG-2 Overall, the images in this movie are mostly sharp, with fairly good shadow detail. However, the entire film appeared slightly soft, and lacking in fine detail — as was evident in many of the close-ups of faces and clothing. I'm sure that the evident softness of the transfer is due to the use of the MPEG-2 codec to encode the movie. Otherwise, there were no other major picture anomalies (such as: specks, hair-lines, white dots, color fluctuations, etc.) to mar the image. Lastly, this movie's picture quality, while decent, is another example of the learning curve that was encountered by those who transferred movies to blu-ray in the early days of the format: that is, usually at least adequate, but could be better (nothing that a remastering using current techniques and technology couldn't fix). AUDIO: LPCM 5.1 (48KHz, 16-bit) • Dolby Digital 5.1 (448 kbps) I only listened to the LPCM track.

This movie has hardly any bass, nearly no activity nor directionality in the surround channels, and no ambient sounds to speak of — but, it does have clear well-placed dialog and well recorded music. For what it is (i.e.—dialog heavy, no explosions, and very little surround activity), this is an adequate soundtrack, which fits very well with the style and content of the movie. EXTRAS: Several 'Making Of' videos None of the extras were reviewed.

Question: Which military courtroom drama of 1992 starred Tom Cruise, Jack Nicholson and Demi Moore?
Answer: 'A FEW GOOD MEN'